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...becomes a chance to pillory your opponents, play-act morality and audition for your 15 minutes of cable fame. People not only choose sides, they also choose roles. Representative Bob Inglis, raw from his November loss to Senator Fritz Hollings, returned as the voice of the Lord, the Old Testament one. Representative Lindsey Graham's early turn as Hamlet turned out to be a search for an unoccupied spot on the opinion spectrum that might land him on Meet the Press. He found a "legal technicality" that allowed him to vote against one article, earning him the valuable CONSERVATIVE BUCKS...
...Many conclude that Sacajawea is a wonderful symbol of America's greatness; her success in the face of great obstacles is a testament to the American spirit...
...article "Time to Put Women in Drag, Too" (Opinion, Dec. 10), Matthew E. Johnson makes a series of long-overdue suggestions for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT). The tremendous success of Guys & Dolls is testament to the fact that other productions should be allowed to grace the historic HPT stage. And perhaps the Woman of the Year event should take top billing every other year so as not to place sole emphasis on the Man of the Year tradition...
...huge budget that's been built up over the years." Choreographer Jim Augustine '01 suggests that the budget problems were "symbolic of a larger problem in the theater community--the allocation of resources based on this segregation by company." The fact that these constraints were overcome is a testament both to the excitement people had for the production, and the increasing recognition by the administration and the arts community that companies like HRDC and G&S cannot cover theater's demand for funding and space...
...land, criminals are deprived of the right to make them. But as a punishment, disenfranchisement is both ineffective and gratuitously cruel. Unlike jail time, it does not prevent the offender from committing additional crimes, nor does it have much deterrent effect. Permanent disenfranchisement does not even serve the Old Testament call for an-eye-for-an-eye retribution; a system in which the murderer suffers the same penalty as the shoplifter cannot be just. If used at all, disenfranchisement should at least be restricted to time spent in prison, so that ex-offenders would be restored to full citizenship once...